A/N: A quick trip to the owlery, still no slash though

A/N: A quick trip to the owlery, still no slash though. Its coming!

Owlery

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Ashley and Harry walked up to the owlery in silence. Both thinking on what Dumbledore had said to them. Once they arrived Ashley quickly wrote a letter to Draco telling him to meet her the next day and sent it with one of the school owls. She sat down to wait for Harry to finish writing to Sirius. Just as he was about to fold it she stopped him.

Harry' she said, standing up and walking over to him Do you think I could write something to Sirius on your letter? It seems a waste to send a separate owl when all I'm really going to do is say hello to him'

Harry looked surprised Umm...sure' he said, not sounding very sure at all.

Thanks' she said and wrote:

Hey Padfoot,

Hows Moony? Having fun without me there

to interrupt you two in your "private" moments?

(Oops, that slipped out!) Do you miss me yet?

Life must be sooo dull without me! Say hi to Moony

for me and tell him that he won't have to worry about

Snape when you come this time. I should have him

wrapped round my finger by then. I hope that

Dumbledore isn't clueless enough to let you and Moony

share a room, you'd never get any sleep then!

(that slipped out too, sorry Sirius) he he he,

I think that I've managed to get Harry worried now.

I'd better go explain, or maybe I'll leave that to

you when you get here.

See you soon

Luv Ash!

(Who is smiling sweetly and hoping

that Sirius and Remus don't murder

her in her sleep when they

come to Hogwarts)

Ashley smiled at Harry and handed him the letter back.

You kow Sirius and Remus?' he said incredulously, it seemed that he was too innocent to understand what her comments in the letter meant.

Sure. I was with Sirius for most of last year and then we stayed at Remus's in the summer holidays. Sirius is my uncle.'

He's your uncle!' Harry exclaimed But he never told me he had a niece'

Well he does, and that niece is me' she smiled Now are you going to send that letter before I decide what I wrote was really stupid and have to burn it?'

Oh yeah' Harry said blushing and tying the letter to his snowy white owl Take this to Sirius Hedwig'

They left the owlery and began to walk to the Gryffindor common room. Ashley decided to try and talk to him about Draco again. She was pretty sure that they didn't really hate eachother but their emotions were so mixed where it came to how they felt about eachother that she usually got a headache and gave up.

Harry' she started Did you think about what I said about Draco?'

Yes' he said turning to face her while he was walking And I'm not really sure what to say to you. He's treated me and my friends like shit since we arrived here at Hogwarts and I think that you're asking alot for us to suddenly become friends just because you're here, we've had this whole rival enemy thing going for more than four years and I really don't think that we can just forget all of that becuase you want us to.'

I guess that I have to admit you're sort of right' Ashley said sighing

What do you mean sort of?' Harry asked curiously

Well, you don't really hate him do you? Its all the Good and Wonderful Harry Potter against the Dark and Evil Draco Malfoy.' she said as they stopped to give the Fat Lady the password and walked into the Gryffindor common room Its all to do with your reputations isn't it? Neither of you seem to be able to cope with being something different than what other people want you to be.'

I don't get you Ashley' Harry said staring at her You come here and start trying to make me and Draco be friends after we've hated eachother for so long. You don't even give us a choice as to what we want to do.'

Well maybe thats because I know what the words "Voldemort is rising" mean. Maybe its because I've seen what Voldemort does to innocent people who happen to be in his way. Maybe its because I know that so many people are going to die when Voldemort comes, people who I know and who I care for. I don't want you or Draco to die just when one of you could have saved the other but didn't because you're supposed to be rivals' She knew her hair had probably gone red but she didn't care, it always did that when she felt strongly about something. It would explain part of the reason why Harry was staring at her We're going to have to go and face Voldemort, Harry. We're some of the best the wizarding world can offer. We'll have a much better chance of succeeding if we have friends there with us'

I'm sorry Ashley' Harry said I didn't know that it was that important to you. I'll try and be friends with Draco for you.'

Harry' she cried Why can't you just be friends with Draco because you want to. Not because I said you had to. If you bothered to know him then you'd see that he's not that bad. Please try Harry, please' She ran up stairs and into her dormitory, collapsing on her bed.

Why cant they understand' she whispered Why?'

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